For this class, you’ll also need to be aware and be able to apply
these terms:

Stereotyping

Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one
social group about another. They are often used in a negative or prejudicial
sense and are frequently used to justify certain discriminatory behaviours.
More benignly, they may express sometimes-accurate folk wisdom about
social reality.

Often
a stereotype is a negative caricature or inversion of some positive characteristic
possessed by members of a group, exaggerated to the point where it becomes
repulsive or ridiculous.

Stereotype
production is based on :

Simplification

Exaggeration or distortion

Generalization

Presentation of cultural attributes
as being 'natural'

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inductive reasoning

"Inductive reasoning" (not to be confused with
"mathematical induction" or and "inductive proof", which is
something quite different) is the process of reasoning that a general principle
is true because the special cases you've seen are true. For example, if all the
people you've ever met from a particular town have been very strange, you might
then say "all the residents of this town are strange". That is
inductive reasoning: constructing a general principle from special cases. It
goes in the opposite direction from deductive reasoning.

Inductive reasoning is not logically valid. Just because all
the people you happen to have met from a town were strange is no guarantee that
all the people there are strange.

Deductive reasoning

This is just the opposite if inductive reasoning where you
look at a group and draw a conclusion about the group, and then you apply the
same conclusion about each and every member of that group.

It's like stereotyping, but it's not always negative.

It's like saying most people in the town like chili cheese
fries; therefore, everyone in the town likes chili cheese fries.

Deductive reasoning has it's strong
points, but sometimes it can be invalid as well.

Your job then was to read back through "Cathedral"
and find two examples of stereotyping, inductive reasoning, and deductive
reasoning.

For some practice, please click this link and do the
exercises:http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/induc/ind-ded.html